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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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To be fair I think that a fair few people who initially voted to remain would be in favour of leaving after seeing how the EU behaved in negotiations etc. But then, on the other hand, you'd probably see a fair few the other way round wanting to remain after seeing what a mess leaving is looking like...
The issue with the tories is that a lot of high profile MPs or former MPs were fundamentally in favour of leaving where a lot of them also were in favour of remaining, the split has been going on for years (and probably didn't help Major's government either) which is why they had difficulty going through the WA until May quit. When Labour basically vote with the whip it does make the job harder.
I think also some people are expecting results overnight whereas we lose access to the single market and what the EU can get us (and vice versa) and then have to do this for ourselves, we have the trade deal with the EU, and other countries, but these take time to work on - like presumably the EU's deals did initially. It's going to take a few years to sort out.